In the Australian Curriculum, students develop ethical understanding as they identify and investigate the nature of ethical concepts, values and character traits, and understand how reasoning can assist ethical judgement. Ethical understanding involves students building a strong personal and socially oriented ethical outlook that helps them to manage context, conflict and uncertainty, and to develop an awareness of the influence that their values and behaviour have on others. It does this through fostering the development of ‘personal values and attributes such as honesty, resilience, empathy and respect for others’, and the capacity to act with ethical integrity, as outlined in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008, p. 9).

(Australian Curriculum)

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• Values Education Resources Library List:  http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/AVERD_Educators.pdf
• Ethical Understanding - Australian Curriculum:    http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/generalcapabilities/ethical-understanding/introduction/introduction
• Fair Trade: Lessons about the meaning and relevancy of fair trade:   http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/fairtrade
  
• Who's Idea is It Anyway?  'A unit is for students to consider ethical and legal issues surrounding the well-established practice of artistic appropriation and its relevance to the visual arts in the 21st century.' http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/S1996/index.html
  
• Primary Ethics - Just Think About It - k-6 Curriculum:  http://www.primaryethics.com.au/K-6curriculum.html
  
• Ethical Understanding - Learning Continuum - Australian Curriculum:  http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/generalcapabilities/ethical-understanding/continuum#layout=columns&page=2http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Pdf/Ethical-understanding
  
• Ethical Understanding PDF - Australian Curriculum:  http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Pdf/Ethical-understanding
  
• Values Education - Lesson Plans and Activities:   http://www.curriculum.edu.au/values/
  
• Philosophy in the Classroom - Buranda State School :  https://burandass.eq.edu.au/Curriculum/Teachingandlearning/Pages/Philosophy-in-school.aspx 
  
• I Think: http://actf.com.au/catalog/item/174
  
• Ethics and Philosophies - films from Screen Australia - with teacher notes:  http://aso.gov.au/education/values/ethics-and-philosophies/
  
• Choose Your Own Statistics: http://splash.abc.net.au/statistics-game/#/
  
• ThinKind: http://www.thinkkind.org/